1st Lecture: Finding the Ideal Job Review of the book «What colour is your parachute?» By Barbara Kleppinger You are out of work. You hate your job. You aren’t satisfied with your career. You are looking for your first job. Where do you start? If you are like most Americans‚ you’ll probably send your resume to a lot of companies. You may answer newspaper want ads every Sunday. Or you might go to employment agencies. But experts say you won’t have much luck. People find jobs only 5 to 15 per cent
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1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. If you know all the possible words within a word family‚ you can express yourself in a wider range of ways. For example‚ if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring‚ you can say: • The lesson was boring. • The lesson bored me. • That
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Name of Assignment: How I will develop sight word knowledge in my instructional programme. Introduction Sight words are words which are recognized on sight and do not require any analysis. Sight word knowledge refers to the ability to recognize the pronunciation of words automatically without conscious application of other decoding strategies (Leu and Kinzer‚ 1999). One of the benchmarks of a good reader is fluency. LaBerg and Samuels‚ 1976 define fluency as the process of automatically
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the sabbath day and not do any physical labor for the rest of the day. If one was to judge John Proctor by these standards‚ they would look at him as a man who is not holy and will not go to heaven after he died. He made bad decisions‚ and caused the people that were closest to him much strife. However‚ John Proctor was a honest man that is willing to do what is right rather than what was easy. “Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties”(Applebee et. al. 175). He was not considered to be upper class
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written word inferior to the spoken‚ and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight‚ sound‚ smell and touch." -excerpt taken from Gloria Naylor’s ’The Meanings of a Word’. Words The first sentence of this excerpt can have several interpretations‚ depending on which synonym of the word ’language’
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power of words can make you be down and depressed and they can make you feel good about yourself. The way words make you feel have been used in life history and literature. Words can be hurtful when they are used against you in a argument and say things out of spite. Also words can be make you feel good about yourself when someone complements you or tells you something nice. In my life words have been hurtful and uplifting. There’s a saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never
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tragedy. John Proctor is the tragic hero in the play by Arthur Miller. These events happen in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. There are many pivotal characters in the play but the most significant is John Proctor. He values his reputation and stays true to himself throughout the whole play‚ is a man of integrity‚ and is the most relatable character in the story. We love to have someone in every story‚ play‚ or even movies and books to love and hate and we love to love John Proctor. As a character
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is a prime example of this writing strategy based on the characters created and the way the author develops them throughout the manuscript. John Proctor‚ one of the very prominent character in the manuscript‚ not only fits into this category but flourishes and deepens the plot of the play as the said tragic hero. Arthur Miller’s portrayal of John Proctor confirms Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero by his interactions with the townspeople and his hesitation to speak out about the hysteria in Salem
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ASSIGNMENT ON MICROSOFT WORD What is Microsoft Word? Microsoft Word‚ or Word as it is commonly known‚ is a software application that allows you (the user) to perform word processing. You may use Word to create documents such as letters‚ invitations‚ term papers‚ flyers‚ resumes‚ novels‚ and much more! Microsoft Word is a proprietary word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written
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People make promises that they fail to keep. Loved ones know that words alone are insufficient to keep and achieve our promises. Words are convincing‚ powerful‚ and provide essential explanations. However‚ they do not guarrantee that what has been said will be fulfilled. As the saying goes‚ "It’s easier said than done." A man can say he will get a better paying job‚ buy a new house for his family‚ and pay off the mortgage‚ but chances of those events happening are slim without having determination
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